Chapter 156: Defeat and Decision
Chapter 156 Defeat and Decision Baroque commanded the Frostwolf Clan Legion to press forward step by step, and the Beast Clan's beast team had moved to the right side of the battlefield, and they were not slow to embellish the Crown Buck Legion, nor did they attack, but they were so unsettling and unsettling.
On the left side of the battlefield is the wolf cavalry led by Angleigh, the hideous wolf comes and goes like the wind, clinging to the rear of the human legion and galloping past several times, but it is not a surprise attack, it is also embellished.
The purpose of the Baroque is obvious, he is to oppress the crown bucks and make the human legions panic. Now the light cavalry's roundabout battle formation is very tight, and even on the way back, it can be perfectly defended. But this state cannot be maintained forever, as long as the scattered horses and feet are slightly exposed when retreating, the wolves and beasts on both sides will immediately launch a surprise attack, even if they pay a heavy price, they will forcibly cut off the more than 2,000 human heavy horses in the rear team, and the roundabout battle formation of light horses, at that time, it is time to harvest the battlefield!
Roxana saw Baroque's sinister intentions, but he couldn't do anything about it. Unless you turn around and fight the orcs again...... Of course, that would play into the hands of some cunning orc. It can only retreat step by step in a tight and orderly manner, which makes it impossible for the Crown Bucks to speed up even if they want to. The impact of the civil strife in Odría has finally been revealed, in the past, there would have been reinforcements in the rear to support, but at this time, the two princes each led their armies to fight, in order to fight for that throne, who could care about the distant grassland of the horse farm? Roxana secretly cursed the two fools in his heart more than once -- even if Prime Minister Severus launched a rebellion, he at least knew the importance of the horse breeding land to Odria, so he did not mobilize the crown bucks army back to the imperial capital. However, Fronnaso and Bucred completely ignored this place, didn't they know that once the horse breeding grassland was lost, the source of mounts for the Odria army would be completely cut off, and the strength of the empire would be greatly reduced?
It's too late to say anything, Roxana won't take refuge with any of the princes, he just wants to bring as many legionnaires back to the empire as possible. Then he will go to the Bright Mountain of the Holy See of the Apocalypse, with this major discovery and his many years of experience in leading the army, he will always be recognized by the Holy See, and in the future, he may have the opportunity to command the Holy See's army to come to the northern tundra to avenge today's revenge.
In this way, they are not slow but they are always tired, and the morale of the orcs is high, but it is good to say, the soldiers of the crown bucks have begun to panic, and it is not a way to go on like this, sooner or later they will be dragged down, how to get rid of the difficult orcs?
Roxana had to make a painful decision...... There must have been some sacrifices! Until this time he didn't want to give up the hoplites, because that was the core of the crown bucks, and without the hoplites, the crown bucks would lose their souls.
Three thousand men were drawn from the roundabout battle array and moved to the rear to guard the perimeter of the heavy cavalry. The time that the Baroque has been waiting for has finally arrived!
The heavy cavalry charge was invincible and almost unstoppable, but once they lost their speed and were still on the way to retreat, it was like a broken down steel chariot, empty of a strong armor, but they were helpless in the face of the orc cavalry coming and going like the wind, and if they lost the protection of the auxiliaries, they could only be slaughtered. The 7,000 soldiers of the whirlwind battle array were scattered out of 3,000, and the range of the whirlwind defense was reduced by half, and Roxana hoped that he would be able to tighten the gap and make up for it before the orcs had time to react, but unfortunately the Baroque shattered his extravagant hopes.
Muru, Tulayan, and Lorne Khan had long since woken up, and Baroque used the magic of shamanic witchcraft to heal their ears and broken bones that were almost deaf, and although the power of the phantom beast took too much time to cultivate, it was still easy to launch a sneak attack. I just discovered the special ability of the Gesar Pangolin Phantom Beast, so I naturally want to make the most of it.
The three human commanders who led 3,000 light cavalry to protect the heavy cavalry were surrounded by powerful fighting warriors, and they were well protected, making it difficult to be attacked on the battlefield...... At least that's what humans think, but a sudden turn of events turns everything upside down. They had already surrounded most of the hoplites, and were about to close the last of the gaps, when a mutation protruded. In the grass under the feet of the three human commanders, three earthy yellow Limans suddenly burst out, and from the belly of the mount's horse, a huge axe blade poked out, and with a loud bang, the whole horse was cut in two, and the Liman's castration continued to cut off half of the body of the man on horseback. In the bloody blood of the human and animal internal organs in the sky, the three of Tulayan laughed hideously, and once again their bodies glowed with yellow light, and they re-burrowed into the ground. The dense crowd of human warriors around them was stunned, they had never encountered such a means of sneaking up on an attack from the ground. The commander of the three thousand-man team died right under his nose, and his death was extremely humiliating!
The battlefield is not a place to be in a daze, and the Baroque does not give the enemy a chance to mourn, and almost at the moment when the three of Tulayan have just launched a surprise attack, he has the horn of the attack sounded. After so long, not to mention the humans, even the orcs were exhausted, and he didn't want to delay any longer, so he launched the horn of an all-out attack.
The time had finally come for the great boar heavy cavalry of Hubertus to show their duty, and their task was to tear apart the light cavalry whirling battle formations that had just split to aid the rear heavy cavalry, and had not yet been closed, so that they could not protect the heavy cavalry.
The stupid big man rode on the back of a huge boar, screaming and excitedly leading a hundred heavy cavalry orcs under his command who were covered in armor and armed to the teeth, like a steel tank crashing into the roundabout battle array. The three thousand-man light horsemen who had lost their command failed to react immediately, and by the time a captain of the hundred took over the command, Hubertus' wild boar heavy cavalry had already crashed into the chaos.
The battle array is really a wonderful thing, the same three thousand light horsemen, when carefully and orderly arranged, all the forces seem to be able to magically merge into one, resist the violent attack from the outside, even several times the enemy is helpless in a short time. However, once the command is lost, it will fall into chaos, and the strength of defense and attack will plummet several times, and even a hundred wild boar heavy cavalry can tear through the battle formation.
Wild boars that could easily break the thick trees were smashed into their wilds, and hundreds of swarms of the cavalry that blocked their way were knocked over with their mounts, trampled by the iron hooves of the boars, and chopped by the huge tomahawks of the orc cavalry. The crazy Hubertus directly walked out of a bloody path, and when the speed of their impact slowed down suddenly, they had already penetrated the whirling battle array and collided with the protected human heavy cavalry inside.
Remembering the Baroque's admonitions, Hubertus did not stop, shouting and calling out to his men behind him, pulling the reins from the boar's mouth to turn to one side, and charging back. The boars were no more ferocious than the horses, and even if they could not be speeded, their huge fangs and frenzied biting made it impossible for the already chaotic light horsemen to stop them, and they were once again killed by Hubertus as if they were in a no-man's land.
Hubertus succeeded in attracting everyone's attention, and Roxana sent his lieutenants to rush to command in this direction, only thinking that the orcs had chosen this breakthrough point to attack. Inevitably, he began to mobilize troops to reinforce the gap, and even the deputy ruthlessly ordered the heavy cavalry to turn around and prepare to launch a Cudore assault battle formation to give the damned orcs a taste.
Baroque, who was watching the battlefield, discovered the enemy's intentions, and he couldn't help but sneer: When the Kudore heavy cavalry battle formation and the roundabout battle array are mixed together, can it really exert an effect? If so, why did Roxana separate the two battle formations in the first place? The forces of the two battle formations collide with each other, which will only have the opposite effect. I'm afraid that deputy is just a guy on paper, and he doesn't have much actual combat experience, right?
Of course, Baroque would not be kind enough to remind him that it was too late for him to be happy. Calmly issuing the order, the Frost Wolf Legion and the War Bear Clan Legion have converged and have entangled the main army led by Roxana, who has discovered the clues and wants to move closer here. Angleigh's wolf cavalry finally played the role of a ranger tactic, sticking to the outer edge of the whirling battle array like peeling an onion, and raiding again and again, regardless of the killing, the slightest touch and left. Exhausted by the enemy, casualties inevitably increased. The mortal threat is the beasts that are watching from the sidelines, and Plotoya will only wait for the Baroque to give him a signal before launching a final attack.
At this time, the Crown Bucks Army was gradually compressed and divided into two large parts, like a gourd. Under the deliberate command of Baroque, the waist in the middle of the gourd became thinner and thinner, and when it was cut off, that is, the moment when the crown buck completely collapsed. The result was beyond Baroque's expectations, and he was even a little excited at this time...... Maybe if you're lucky, you can reap more results, and it's not hopeless to completely cripple the Crown Bucks Army!
The last straw that broke the camel's back finally appeared, but neither Roxana nor Baroque were happy to see that straw appear――――― and in the distance there was another army, undoubtedly orcs. But that orc army is ...... under the shamanic banner of [Valley of Miracles]!
The orcs of the War Bear Clan were cheering, but the orcs of the Frostwolf Clan, including Protoya, who knew about it, couldn't help but curse in their hearts...... Shameless Valley of Miracles, they're here to pick peaches!
Baroque smiled meaningfully, hehe, the peaches are ripe, but unfortunately they are not so easy to pick!
Roxana, of course, didn't know the filth among the orcs, and he also saw the shaman banner in the Valley of Miracles, and finally despaired. In the end, he turned around with tears streaming down his face, crying and shouting, "Let's go!" The only remaining 4,000 light cavalry under his command easily broke away from the entanglement of the orc army, and quickly withdrew, leaving the rear team of 3,000 light cavalry and 3,000 core heavy cavalry that had been completely surrounded on the battlefield!
Everyone waited for Baroque to give the final order to kill, but Baroque whispered something to Muru and the other leaders, and then the guys, with strange smiles, obeyed the order and left for their own team. (To be continued.) )